On the December 11, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief
Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor
Brad Oman and special guest
Bryan Young (from Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com and Full of Sith podcast) for a spoiler-filled conversation about the seventh episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian season two, entitled “The Believer”.
Opening Banter: Peter is recording from a different location this week so he may sound a lot different.
In Our Featured Presentation: The Mandalorian Chapter 15 Spoiler Discussion.
Feedback from last week’s episode
Brief reaction
Speculation
All the other stuff you need to know:
You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
The
Mandalorian’s second season, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, brings us to the very brink of a confrontation with Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). In order to get a bead on where Gideon’s cruiser might be, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) employs the help of Cara Dune (Gina Carano), Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison), and Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), to spring Mayfeld (Bill Burr) out of a New Republic scrap prison. With Mayfeld, they’ll be able to get the coordinates, but to do it, they need to get access to an internal Imperial terminal.
To do that, they travel to Morak, the site of a secret Imperial mining facility. There, they lead a daring infiltration mission that forces Din to trade his beskar for an Imperial hover driver uniform alongside Mayfeld. They have to fight their way through hostile locals trying to blow up the shipment of rhydonium they hijacked in order to sneak into the Imperial facility. Din Djarin is able to hold them off, but without his beskar, it’s a